Chapter 579

As night fell, Eliana thought of her promise to Maurice this morning. So she went to the kitchen and

unwittingly prepared a sumptuous dinner. After setting up the table, she looked at it only to realize that

tonight there seemed to be a feast.

Time quietly passed as Eliana kept track of the time. She patiently watched as the clock’s hour hand

slowly ran from six o’clock to eight o’clock. Now it was almost nine o’clock, but there was no sign of

Maurice coming home yet.

“Mommy, when is Mr. Moran coming? I’m starving,” Aileen complained, sitting on the sofa and rubbing

her belly with her little hands. When she stared at the big meal on the table, her mouth watered, and

she almost drooled.

“I think that bad guy doesn’t want to come, so he stands us up.”

Adrian had always disliked Maurice. And now that Maurice was late, he disdained Maurice even more.

Eliana looked at the door disappointedly. Then she gradually stopped looking forward to Maurice’s

coming.

It was too late now. She didn’t want to wait any longer and starve her children.

“Okay, kids. Since you’re hungry, let’s eat first.”

As soon as Adrian and Aileen sat at the table, they devoured the food. Eliana, on the other hand, lost

her appetite when she looked at the table full of food.

Her mind was obviously not on eating but on something else. She glanced at her phone on the table

every now and then as if waiting for a call or text from someone.

When Aileen noticed Eliana’s abnormality, she put down her fork and knife, looked at Eliana with

concern, and asked, “Mommy, are you thinking of Mr. Moran?”

Eliana only came back to her senses after Aileen called her out several times. She answered Aileen’s

question guiltily, “Of course not. I am not thinking of him.”

However, Aileen had already seen through her lie. The little girl secretly forked a piece of pepper and

put it on Eliana’s plate.

Eliana was in a trance, totally unaware of what Aileen was doing. So she naturally forked the pepper

and put it into her mouth.

As soon as she bit it, the spicy taste exploded in her mouth.

“Ahhh! It’s so spicy!”

She grimaced and hurriedly spat out the pepper. It was so spicy that tears welled up in her eyes. Her

face flushed at once.

Since Aileen’s prank was successful, she covered her mouth and snickered.

Instead of getting angry, Eliana was amused. “You… You are such a naughty girl. Good thing you are

cute.”

She smiled helplessly, and stroke Aileen’s hair.

Adrian couldn’t stand Eliana’s distracted look too. He hesitated for a while before he finally said,

“Mommy, if you are really worried about that bad guy, why don’t you call him and ask?”

Eliana thought Adrian’s idea made sense. So she plucked up her courage, picked up her phone, and

called Maurice.

Maurice was still in the Moran family’s house. When he saw Eliana’s name flashing on the screen of his

phone, it was only then that he remembered their agreement this morning.

He couldn’t help smiling when he answered the phone. He asked, “Are you still waiting for me to come

home for dinner?”

“Of course not! You’re flattering yourself too much!” Eliana quickly retorted.

“I’m happy to know that you’re waiting for me.”

Maurice’s voice was filled with obvious joy.

Eliana’s face quickly flushed. After being seen through by Maurice, she was too embarrassed to say a

word.

Before she could even recover from the embarrassment, Maurice changed the topic. “Eliana, did my

grandfather force you to leave me before?”

Eliana was stunned for a moment. How did Maurice know about it?

Could it be that Earle told him?

For a moment, she didn’t know what to say. She actually couldn’t tell the truth.

How could she tell Maurice that she and Earle had a deal? Their agreement was simple. As long as

she left, Maurice could take the Moran Group back. And to avoid getting Maurice into trouble, she ran

away.

Eliana knew Maurice too well. He would go crazy if he knew.

But her silence had actually given him the answer.

And this made him furious.

He was so furious that he couldn’t wait to stand in front of her and kiss her lips fiercely. Then he would

tell her how stupid the decision she made was.

But at this moment, Maurice could only speak to Eliana on the phone. So he said in a tone that seemed

threatening but also pleading, “Eliana, listen carefully. I won’t lose everything because of my

grandfather’s suppression. I want you to promise me that from now on, you will never leave me for

whatever reason. Do you understand?”

At this moment, Eliana felt that the wall she had built in her heart with great difficulty collapsed.

And it was Maurice’s attack that made it collapse. Then those suppressed emotions in her heart poured

out like a flood that was hard to contain.

Her hand holding the phone trembled slightly. No words could fully express her feelings right now.

Finally, she condensed it in two sentences.

“Maurice, don’t underestimate yourself. I have nowhere to go.”

Both her body and her heart had nowhere to go.